OpenCV Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook Second Edition: Over 50 recipes to help you build computer vision applications in C++ using the OpenCV library
About this ebook
- Install and create a program using the OpenCV library
- Process an image by manipulating its pixels
- Analyze an image using histograms
- Segment images into homogenous regions and extract meaningful objects
- Apply image filters to enhance image content
- Exploit image geometry in order to relate different views of a pictured scene
- Calibrate the camera from different image observations
- Detect faces and people in images using machine learning techniques
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About the author
Robert Laganiere is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is also a faculty member of the VIVA research lab and is the co-author of several scientific publications and patents in content based video analysis, visual surveillance, driver-assistance, object detection, and tracking. Robert authored the OpenCV2 Computer Vision Application Programming Cookbook in 2011 and co-authored Object Oriented Software Development published by McGraw Hill in 2001. He co-founded Visual Cortek in 2006, an Ottawa-based video analytics start-up that was later acquired by iwatchlife.com in 2009. He is also a consultant in computer vision and has assumed the role of Chief Scientist in a number of start-up companies such as Cognivue Corp, iWatchlife, and Tempo Analytics. Robert has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal (1987) and MSc and PhD degrees from INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal (1996). You can visit the author's website at laganiere.name.
